Gustavos heidel



(No Model.)

G. HEIDI-1L.

SAD IRON. .l No. 460,868. Patented Oct. 6, 1891.

UNITED i STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GUSTAVOS HEIDEL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO IVILLIAM MEDFERRIS, OF SAME PLACE.

SAD-IRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 460,868, dated October6, 1891.

Application led March 14, 1890. Renewed .Tuly 10l 1891. Serial No.399,066. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

.Be it known that I, GUsTAvos HEIDEL, of the city of St. Louis. andState of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Im- 5provement in Sad-Irons, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming part of this speciiication.

My invention relates to certain improve- Io ments in sad-irons; andmyinvention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described,and pointed out in the claim.

Figure I is a side elevation illustrative of my invention. Fig. Il is asimilar View show- I5 ing a modified form of my invention.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the body ofthe iron, which maybe made either in a solid form, shown in Fig. I, or with a removable topportion, as shown in Fig. II, the form 2o shown in Fig. II beingdesigned to permit the escape of heat 'from the upper portion of thebody of the iron and thus prevent to some extent the heating of thehandle.

2 represents the handle portion of the iron,

25 and 3 the shanks connecting the handle to the body. 'Phe handle ismade open, so as to permit a circulation of air through it, and it isformed of wire bent into a number of coils, as shown. This permits acirculation of air 3o through the handle, both longitudinally andtransversely, and prevents the handle being heated to any considerableheight ot temperature by the body. The shank 3 may be formed integralwith the handle by extending the ends of the wireotwhich thehandle isformed 35 in a downward direction and uniting them to the body. Theseshanks I form with one or more coils 4, (I have shown one coil in Fig. Iand two coils in Fig. IL) the object of these coils being to permit acirculation of air 4o around the shanks and thus also prevent thecirculation of heat from the body to thehandle through the shanks.

A handle for sad-irons thus made is cheap and light, and does not becomeheated to any 45 such high degree of temperature as will make the handletoo warm to be grasped hy the naked hand in use.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to construct sad-irons with coiledmetallic han- 5o dles, and this I do not claim; but I am not aware thata sad-iron such asset forth in my claim has ever been made, and to thisform I limit myself.

I claim as my invention-- 55 A sad-iron having a body, a handle, andshanks, the handle being formed integral ot one piece of wire coiled toform a hand-hold and to form vertical loops if in the Shanks,substantially as herein shown and described. 6o

GUSTAYOS IIEIDEL.

In presence of- THoMAs KNIGHT, E. S. KNIGHT.

